Word: lamonts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Petroleum Institute? mouthpiece and clearing house of the oil business, composed of 4,300 individuals from all the companies of importance? met last week in Chicago resolved to take Oil more firmly in hand. Secretary of Commerce Lamont was there to tell Oil that it must regard the public interest, must cease the "mad wastes" of the past. In the air was talk of setting up an Oil Dictator, to govern the petroleum business as baseball and cinema are governed. Mentioned (to his great delight) as possible oil tsar at a possible salary of $250.000 a year, was Vice...
...Hoover head nodded approvingly last week as the President read a significant article on War debts and reparations by Thomas William Lamont, Morgan partner and co-author of the Young Plan, in The Saturday Review of Literature. Mr. Lament's thesis: Europe must now readjust its intergovernment obligations within the Young Plan and on its own initiative. Said he: "Neither Germany, France nor any other country should gain the idea that President Hoover, having undertaken with his one-year debt holiday to meet an emergency, is necessarily called upon to make the next move. This whole problem...
Reserve Bank was there. So were Thomas William Lamont (J. P. Morgan & Co.), Albert Henry Wiggin (Chase National), William C. Potter (Guaranty Trust), Charles Edwin Mitchell (National City), George Whitney (J. P. Morgan & Co.). The rich paintings (Rubens, Rembrandt, Reynolds) on the walls may have held their attention for a moment, but an air of tension and expectancy forbade anything except the business on hand. The bankers waited for one man who was speeding toward them from his camp on the Rapidan. President Hoover, discarding all precedent, entered the apartment shortly after his return to Washington. He soon laid before...
...finances of War-racked Europe. Tempers were as quick as the tremendous international negotiations of the firm had to be. Someone who thought fast and spoke softly was needed. Morgan the Son had just officially taken over the House. To him came Partners Henry P. Davison and Thomas W. Lamont with the suggestion that Lawyer Morrow, Partner Lament's Englewood neighbor, be taken into the business. Morrow was approached, took his wife to Bermuda to decide, decided...
...treasury at Mukden. Fifty vaults containing the reserves of the leading provincial banks of Manchuria remained under Japanese seal and guard. Because the Mukden branch of Manhattan's National City Bank had fat silver deposits in the sealed Chinese banks and wanted to withdraw same last week, Branch Manager Lamont M. Cochran requested of the Japanese authorities that they permit Mukden's banks to open. He was ignored...